As a new member of Parliament with significant experience on committees, I'm just trying to understand the purpose of establishing a subcommittee. It's my understanding that generally a subcommittee is established in the event that something comes up during the regular proceedings and it's determined that it's best to have a subcommittee established to deal with that particular issue.
At this stage of the game it seems like we're establishing a steering committee, yet there's no issue on the table, so I don't understand the need for a steering committee at this point in the game. I can see it perhaps happening at some time down the road, but I don't understand why we're having this debate right now.